Nectarine Girl Tells Us All About Her Zine: Available Today!
So today our Instagram crush Nectarine Girl releases a Zine! It is in collaboration and as shot by the incredible New Zealand born photographer Rebecca Zeyphr Thomas. The Zine is called ‘Nectarine’ Zine and is available to buy today!
Nectarine Girl (Iris Owen) is the self proclaimed ‘London’s most famous not famous person’ with appearances on Eggheads, Blankety Blank and other daytime television shows, a weekly email round up of her life in the form of a newsletter and an uncanny resemblance to Louise from Tracy Beaker. She isn’t your average pub quiz host, challenging the stereotype with a love of everything pink and Juicy Couture. This fame hungry internet personality is not one to ignore.
Her new Zine is one for the bookshelves. From being pictured with the original Y2K Queen Paris Hilton to being snapped taking a selfie with livestock, these photos are all you never knew you needed and below is proof. All the photography is by Rebecca Zeyphr Thomas.
You can tell that this Zine is incredible who better to tell us all about it than Nectarine Girl herself?!
Read on for the scoop about the Zine in the words of ‘London’s most famous not famous person’ herself…
‘Nectarine’ zine is all about capturing the fun and silly side to things whilst navigating life in London during your 20’s.
I met Rebecca Zeyphr Thomas at a book launch in 2022 where she asked to photograph my sparkly blue heeled boots. I tracked down the picture via the power of Instagram and messaged her the week later saying, “These are my feet!”
After Rebecca had a little stalk of my online profile / personality she asked to take some more photos of me and we began with my bedroom.
My bedroom hasn’t changed much since I was a child, mainly because I haven’t changed much since then myself. Everything is pink, sparkly, nostalgic and full of pop culture references. I have a wall dedicated to framed Walker’s crisp packets from the 90s featuring all the Spice Girls.
My obsession with Juicy Couture is very clear from my room with 80+ tracksuits hung up in colour order and memorabilia scattered everywhere, including a Juicy surfboard!
We incorporated all this colour, fun and passion into the zine and I think you can see my sense of style is definitely not shy. Rebecca followed me around London, visiting my favourite spots, workplace, friend’s events, family house, all of it. We both loved finding the joy in the ordinary parts of life whilst making them super fun. Wearing a bright blue Juicy tracksuit to Gregg’s for example. We had some really good times working together on this, we went to the farm, events at Dover St Market, we met Paris Hilton – all on a budget! It includes tacky fake nails, dodgy tan lines, really good pubs and much more. If you love those things or love looking at someone who does, this zine is for you!
The two years we have taken these photos and compiled the zine has incorporated some huge personal life changes for me. I have been made redundant from a long term job, moved house, been broken up with, so doing the zine has been so special for me and I am really proud to look back on the memories Rebecca helped me capture to see how far I have come.
My motto in life is to lol as much as you can. I never take myself too seriously and like to think I am unapologetically me. I hope the zine conveys that and inspires people to love the things they love because that’s what makes an individual special. Rebecca and I began this project as a professional relationship and it has grown into a really amazing friendship.
The zine was designed by Cat Duncan and is printed on recycled paper, all the photos were shot on film and it’s available to buy from today, the 5th of September from Idea Books!
We cannot keep this news to ourselves and you should not either! Tell a friend, snap up the ‘Nectarine’ Zine at IDEA.